Latest Carriers Headlines
All the headlines from our Carriers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Debt Collector Adds Subrogation Recovery for Insurers in Florida and Other States
Oct 20 2025 // A debt collection agency announced it has launched a subrogration recovery service for insurance companies in Florida and other states. Southwest Recovery Services, a 21-year-old company with offices in Texas, Florida,...
Tips to Make the Most of Carrier Relationships
Oct 20 2025 // I remember talking with an agency owner a few years ago who had gotten upset with an insurance carrier with whom they were working. This has been a frequent occurrence in the last few years as the hard market has added...
New York Hospital Insurer Files for Bankruptcy, Citing Child Sex Abuse Claims
Oct 17 2025 // A Bermuda captive that insured several New York hospitals affiliated with a leading Jewish not-for-profit organization says it is insolvent, citing millions of dollars in child sex abuse claims brought against it under the...
Italy Plans to Get €11 Billion From Banks, Insurers in 3 Years
Oct 17 2025 // Italy’s government coalition has reached an agreement over a complex scheme that would see banks and insurers contributing about €11 billion ($12.8 billion) to its budget over three years. The contribution...
Incubator, Former C&F Exec Launch Specialty Insurer for Insurers, Financial Managers
Oct 16 2025 // A former Crum & Forster executive and a London-based underwriter incubator have teamed up to launch a new specialty insurance company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Bartlett 1889 Specialty Insurance plans to offer...
SIAA Launches New Data Driven AI Tool to Boost Agency, Carrier Growth
Oct 15 2025 // The agency network, SIAA, today announced the launch of a new artificial intelligence optimization platform called SIAA NXT, a platform that combines a suite of solutions and services designed to help members and partners...
French Banks, Insurers Sell Bonds After Macron’s New Cabinet
Oct 14 2025 // French banks and insurers tapped the European market for bonds on Monday, with investor demand holding up for most offerings despite the country’s ongoing political crisis. BPCE SFH sold a €1 billion ($1.2 billion)...
5-Year Cost of Litigation Funding to Commercial Insurers Could Top $25B
Oct 6 2025 // “Are you being serious?” Christopher Swift, chair and chief executive officer of The Hartford, was taken aback by a question from an analyst during the company’s second-quarter earnings call about the...
Insurers Fighting $345 Million Georgia School Abuse Award, With Policy Wording Again at Issue
Oct 6 2025 // In one of the longest-running and most-litigated episodes of alleged child sexual abuse at a private school, the key question in a case now before the Georgia Court of Appeals is whether insurers’ recent policies...
Texas Insurer New Century Placed in Receivership and Liquidation
Oct 6 2025 // New Century Insurance Company, a property and casualty insurer licensed only in Texas, was placed in receivership receivership and ordered into liquidation by the Travis County District Court in Austin on Sept. 3,...
Flood Insurer Neptune Shares Climb 24% After $368 Million US IPO
Oct 2 2025 // Neptune Insurance Holdings Inc. shares jumped 24% after the flood insurance company’s shareholders raised $368.4 million in a US initial public offering. Shares of the St. Petersburg, Florida-based firm closed at...
Lengthy Government Shutdown to Impact Insurers, Says AM Best
Sep 30 2025 // Unless Congress reaches a compromise on funding by midnight, there will be no budget and the government will shut down—sending out waves of implications that will disrupt the insurance industry, according to AM...
Landslide Protection? Pennsylvania to Step In Where Insurance Companies Step Out
Sep 30 2025 // (The Center Square) – Neither naturally occurring landslides nor sinkholes are new phenomena in Pennsylvania. Receiving help when they destroy homes and businesses, however, would be a welcome development for those...
Flood-Focused Neptune’s IPO Joins Boom in Niche Insurer Debuts
Sep 29 2025 // Neptune Insurance Holdings Inc. is hoping its record of growth and profitability selling flood insurance policies will generate the same investor enthusiasm for its US IPO that greeted most debuts by other firms in the...
Korean Insurer DB to Buy Fortegra for $1.65 Billion in US Foray
Sep 26 2025 // South Korea’s DB Insurance Co. agreed to buy US specialty insurer Fortegra Group for $1.65 billion, in what would be the biggest US acquisition by a non-life insurer from the country. The Seoul-based company will...
People Moves: Poland’s Largest Insurer PZU Names Benczak as CEO
Sep 25 2025 // Poland’s largest insurer PZU has appointed Bogdan Benczak as its new chief executive, filling a role that had been led by an acting CEO since the dismissal of his predecessor in August. The appointment, effective...
Travelers: Confidence High in Guidance From Cyber Insurers; Work to Do on Take-Up
Sep 24 2025 // As cyber security threats continue to evolve, more businesses are trusting insurers to offer guidance on proactive protection and prevention. In fact, 86% of business leaders are confident in the cybersecurity guidance...
Two More HO Insurers Join Florida Market, One Led by Former Metromile CEO
Sep 23 2025 // Florida regulators have approved two new homeowner insurance companies, one led by a San Francisco tech entrepreneur and former head of Metromile auto insurance company. “I focus on companies that can successfully...
Florida Adjuster Convicted for Sending Carrier Checks to His Fake Firm
Sep 23 2025 // A former staff adjuster for a large Florida insurance carrier has been found guilty of defrauding the insurer out of more than $580,000. A federal jury in Orlando last week said James Octavias Tobias Owens, 34, from the...
NC Judge Orders Insurers to Pay $50M in TV News Helicopter Crash Death
Sep 22 2025 // A North Carolina judge has ordered $50 million be paid to the family of a Charlotte TV station meteorologist who was killed in a helicopter crash three years ago after finding the companies that owned and operated the...
